April 2014 – Alan's Blog

Get the Long File Name from the Short File Name

Posted on April 24, 2014November 29, 2014 by Alan

I get some reports which give the path to files as an 8.3 DOS “short” file name, filled with tildes and numbers, such as “c:\progra~2\wid6e1~1\v3.5\sqmapi.dll” for the file “c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Identity Foundation\v3.5\SqmApi.dll”. It is easy to go from the long file name to the short file name with a script. What is less easy…

Finding the Renamed Domain Admin Account

Posted on April 7, 2014November 29, 2014 by Alan

A good practice is to rename the domain administrator account in an Active Directory domain. When doing auditing, you will want to know what the name of that account really is. Get-DomainAdmin.ps1 is a script which will give you this information for any domain in your forest. It requires the ActiveDirectory module to run.

All the scripts are saved as .txt files. Newer files have a “View Script” button which will let you save or open a script in notepad. For earlier posts, the easiest way to download with IE is to right click on the link and use “Save Target As”. Rename file from Name_ext.txt to Name.ext.

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